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Lucius Aemilius Paullus (260 BC-2 August 216 BC) was a Roman consul in 219 and 216 BC. He was most famous for his death at the infamous Battle of Cannae in 216 BC during the Second Punic War.
Biography[]
Lucius Aemilius Paullus served as Consul alongside Marcus Livius Salinator in 219 BC, and he defeated Demetrius of Pharos during the Second Illyrian War that year. On his return to Rome, he was awarded a triumph; he was then tried and later acquitted of unfairly dividing the spoils. In 216 BC, during the Second Punic War, he and Gaius Terentius Varro served as consuls, and they shared command of the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae, although Aemilius, an ally of Fabius Cunctator, hated the populist Varro. Paullus died in the battle, while Varro managed to escape. His son Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus became a famous general during the war with Macedon.
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